Navicat MySQL download for Linux - Connection Settings

Navicat MySQL assembles utilitarian tools to manage your databases. To start managing your databases in Navicat MySQL, the first thing you require to do is to establish your MySQL Server connection.

Create Connection

Navicat MySQL provides three typical approaches to establish your connection, click or choose File -> New Connection to start the setup.

Note: A commonly-used protocol - Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is employed for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet (see SSL Settings for details).

Navicat MySQL provides an evaluated account for testing purpose ("Select" privilege only). The remote connection settings are:

Host name/IP address: server1.navicat.com
Port: 4406
User name: navicat
Password: testnavicat

Note: Navicat MySQL authorizes you to make connection to remote MySQL Server running on different platform, i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX.

Remove Connection

To remove a connection

Right-click the connection in the navigation pane and choose Remove Connection.
Confirm removing in the dialog window.

Open Connection

To open a connection

Double-click the connection to open in the navigation pane.

Close Connection

To close a connection

Right-click the connection in the navigation pane and choose Close Connection.

Edit Connection

To edit a connection information

Close the connection if it is being opened.
Right-click the connection and choose Connection Properties.

Achieve Connection Information

To achieve a connection information

Open the connection in the navigation pane.
Right-click the opened connection and choose Connection Information.